3 Best Practices To Follow Before You Write for ShoutMeloud

ShoutMeLoud is grown as a giant in the field of the Blogging and Affiliate Marketing niche. Though there’re many big fishes are crowded in this competitive niche. The man one who pushed the technology blog into a linkable resource for Blogging, SEO, Content and Affiliate Marketing..etc. He is a calm and simple blogger from India who dream to make the blogging as a career option in his motherland. Let’s break the surprise, he is none other than our beloved Harsh Agrawal.

He built ShoutMeLoud as an award-winning blog to help Shouters. Best part SML accepts guest posts under certain circumstance. Here we’ve got the super three principle you should pass, to get accepted your first guest post from SML.

Many of the Freelancers and even some of the blog-o-spere members say’s, guest blogging is the lethargic way of link building. But according to Harsh, guest blogging for backlinks is worst. He says blog with passion and try to build your audience and community around your blog.
I indeed agree with this point, first and foremost you need to build the like-minded audience for your site. Backlinks are only for google bots to rank your blog higher and stable in SERPs.

After analyzing articles written by Harsh, I’ll conclude that he loves high-quality in-depth content. I agree with his point of view, No matter how big your brand is Quality cum detailed content is the only thing that your audience is looking for. He is the true believer of Content Marketing, that’s why he produce beast contents on the regular basis. These are the key point that he suggests for the bloggers who tempted to write for SML.

Three Lessons to Remember Before You Write for SML

Content is not the king, "High-Quality Content is the King"

Since ShoutMeLoud is an authority blog, you should maintain the quality that reflects that current quality and tone. “Content is the king” anyone should agree this statement when you’re in Blog-O-Sphere. Detailed cum quality together play vital roles in making your posts robust, all you need to do is dig deeper into the topic and express your thoughts in a unique and interesting way.

For guest posts, you need to write in a conversation tone, so it stands among the other blog posts. Always remember while you write any guest article, you’re not alone you represent the whole blog community with the wide audience. Better you afford for best or hire some of the freelancers like Me. To write an in-depth content or case studies, go through the blog posts related to your topic, understand what you need to convey for the readers then start writing.

The quality of the content is one among the hallmarks, to get the approval of your guest posts. The reason why Harsh made prohibition for the low-quality guest contents in SML is because for the sake of readers (Shouters) and Cute animals. Confused right? let me Explain.

Think a while that you’ve got an incomplete content, how will expect to solve your readers problem? When loyal readers read those contents they may feel annoying and leave your site without reading further. More often your engagement and search traffic will be zero for that particular content. The reputation of the blog may decrease drastically if the blog continues with the flow of essence fewer contents.

Cute animals are referred to Google Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, and other Algorithm updates. Especially Google Panda, which hunts for the low-quality contents, no matter which reputable blogs they are from. Due to the low-quality guest posts and some spam links, ShoutMeLoud caught by panda in late 2011. Google Panda may ruin your site if you don’t follow panda recovery techniques, if the site is penalized by the panda. So Harsh pays great attention while accepting guest posts.

Think, if you trouble your readers you’ll be slapped by the Google. Keep your readers happy, how will google know whether your readers are happy only with their engagement and conversation.

Remember these things before you submit guest posts:

Make sure you’ve not copied the content from anywhere on the internet. (Don’t be CopyCats)

Giveaway: No longer content is king but “Quality content is the King“. Maintain the quality evenly throughout the post. Express your thoughts, ideas in a realistic way with your point of view which makes the content more sharable and a linkable asset. Make sure you strike the equal balance between the readers and search engine views.

Be Regular and Loyal Reader

Yes, it is one among these three golden principle’s you need to follow before you hit submit your post for SML. As I said above quality is the ultimate factor of for guest posts, but you need to write content for blog audience Mindsets (In your case Shouters) first, then message your content as per your tone (Conversation Copywriting). To know the audience, you should be the regular reader of the blog. When you look at the SML posts, you’ll come across conversation writing style. Interactive writing is the key to successaccording to Harsh, so why not to include in your guest posts. Use active voice and confident tone of writing to get your article more engaging. Read SML guest posts to improve your writing style and to become well versed in that subject.

Giveaway: Though you’re not willing to write for SML, don’t stop reading. It’ll be your helping hand when you are lost in the blog-o-sphere.

Patience Pays!

Patience is the basic requirement for any of the blogger who inspire to take blogging as full-time. There is no record in the world that, one became successful overnight. Creating a WordPress blog, throwing some random articles and bombarding with Google AdSense will never make a penny for you. You need to write great contents, engage in yourself social networks, build niche relevant links, self-branding, build blog community and much more to achieve great feet. When it come for blogging, you need to have the patience to develop money making blog which you can live by. If you lack patience, you’ll end up with quitting blogging. The reason I’m saying is, If your guest post gets rejected don’t get setback. You can resubmit again. Make sure you have improved your content much better before you resubmit, without improvement, it’ll be the waste of time for you.

The Old proverb, Do or Die, but it doesn’t fit in the current era. So it is slightly modified into “Do before you die“.

Giveaway: It took 6+ years for Harsh to build this reputable blog. So how you expect instant approval for guest posts appeal. In order get succeeded you must have patience which pays shortly.

Final Words,

Writing for a high page rank blogs like SML is a dream for most of the bloggers, I indeed dreamt. But how can it get accepted if it doesn’t meets the criteria for SML guest blogging. Think a while If you are the admin of the ShoutMeloud, how will you accept those low-quality guest posts for your blog. You should try again if it rejected for the first time along with improvement that feedbacks by admin. Harsh is hungry bloggers who look for writers with the quality post and a good intention of sharing some unique knowledge to the Shouters. If you have a unique idea and skill of expressing in a peculiar way your on the right blog for submitting and sharing your ideas.

Upcoming pro-bloggers, Hope you learned something from this, Let me know what you have learned from the harsh? or SML? feel free to leave a comment below.

COMMENTs ( 18 )

Great “3 Best Practices To Follow Before You Write for ShoutMeloud” Well said ASHIK..But i have one uncertainty!! How do creators make included pictures with Shoutmeloud logo in it? Is it important to make an included picture like that keeping in mind the end goal to get the visitor posts affirmed?

Very True, Really detailed writeup. I am also contributing to ShoutMeLoud since long now, but quality what helps you to drive the things. I guess if we focus more on quality things will be little more easy.

Harsh is doing a great job in spreading about blogging in India. Glad I met hin through ShoutMeet and I requested him for a guest blogging opportunity. Yes, I know that he hates guest blogging to get backlinks.

I just wanna improve my readership and get good credibility through my helpful guest post on SML and not for the backlink.

You have nicely explained the 3 practices to write here, I’ll follow them for sure.

Well said ASHIK..But i have got one doubt!! How do authors create featured images with Shoutmeloud logo in it? Is it necessary to create a featured image like that in order to get the guest posts approved?

I’d definitely agree with you , Quality content is why I come back again & again to Shoutmeloud . writing styles like , no longer content is king but “Quality content is the King“. leaves an impact . I’d definitely include those tips in my first freelance post . Thanks for this post.